Nationwide
Who Do You Think You Are? It’s Sarah Jessica Parker’s turn to climb her family tree, which reaches back to the Salem Witch Trials. Did ancestor Esther Ellwell stand trial as a witch, or was she an accuser? Tonight, 8 p.m./7 p.m. Central Time, NBC.
Seattle
Everything Under the Sun: Photographs by Imogen Cunningham. Cunningham was a pioneer of modern photography known for her fluid figure studies, portraits, and botanical images. (She’s also thought to be the first woman to photograph a male nude—in this country at least—in 1916; at left, her 1925 Magnolia Blossom.) Sixty images survey her lengthy career, which began in 1907 and ended shortly before her death in 1976 at 93. Seattle Art Museum, through August 29.
Boston
Bella Noche. Get a jump on next weekend—and ease the sting of tax day—with a Thursday-evening birthday bash for Isabella Stewart Gardner, whose Venetian palace of a museum has welcomed visitors since 1903. Enjoy live music and sip a “Madame Gautreau” cocktail in the courtyard garden as you admire the nasturtium vines cascading from the balconies. April 15, 5:30-9:30, at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
New YorkSondheim on Sondheim. Vanessa Williams and cabaret legend Barbara Cook anchor an 80th-birthday salute to the theater’s reigning composer-lyricist, which the show’s designer calls “a documentary in musical revue form.”
Now in previews at Studio 54, running April 22- June 13.
California painter Julia Kay thought her three-year Daily Portrait blog was just for her. But since then, it has meant much more, for her life, her art, and for her community (including us.)
You’ll leave a screening of "Plastic Planet" with a new understanding of the dilemma we face: plastic, the very substance that over the 20th century, significantly changed how we live, has taken us over.